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A Victory for Justice

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Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Aug 11, 1909

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 36, No. 31.

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A Victory for Justice

There seems to be a unanimity of favorable sentiment among prominent men of the South over the settlement of the locomotive firemen’s strike on the Georgia Railway. The white firemen struck because negro firemen were employed at equal wages. The decision of the board of arbitration is that for equal and competent labor the negro shall have equal pay. His right to earn a living shall not be denied. According to the Literary Digest the Southern press generally regard the decision as favorable.